Septet Systems announces the release of its TX Miner knowledge engineering framework. TX Miner is a sophisticated information retrieval tool that provides the underlying support for the Septet Personal Search Syndication™. In addition, TX Miner possess the following capabilities:

• Agent-based approach to information search and retrieval. Here “agents” operate as independent processes that are programmed by the user to search and retrieve information from distributed repositories of publicly available or private information. The agents can be programmed to run at scheduled times, continually, or on demand. On-demand operation may be manual or through a triggering mechanism (e.g., in response to a news story on a specified subject matter). In addition, the agents may operate as processes on remote computing platforms, especially those platforms in proximity to their respective information sources.
• Powerful analytic capabilities for categorization of incoming data, as defined by a combination of agent filter settings, subdirectory filter settings, and TX Miner’s extensive linguist analysis.
• Information sharing among peers. This enables, for example, the construction of databases of highly targeted subject matter. Multiple, but qualified users, comprising a community of interest could access and refine the TX Miner database to improve search results on a topic.
• Entity extraction, to ascertain the relationships between people, places, and time as viewed within a single document or over a large collection of documents.
• Automatic generation of timelines corresponding to events, people, pl aces, etc. This is very useful for tracking industry trends, corporate image, actions of entities, news stories, etc.
• Connections to popular Web search tools, such as Google, Yahoo, and others. These connections support TX Miner’s meta-search capabilities. But unlike conventional meta-search engines, search results are gathered through agents and processed through TX Miner’s extensive analytic capabilities.
• Generation of email alerts to specified individuals or communities in response to user-programmed agent search / filter results.
• Publication of category-based document lists through automatically generated RSS lists. These lists can then be retrieved as links placed into popular RSS readers for easy extraction and listing of updated, topic-specific web (including blog) documents.
• Search capabilities over topic-specific groupings of documents from various sources. This enables the creation of specialized search engines tuned to specific subject matter. These search engines can also be constructed through TX Miner’s peer-to-peer search refinement capabilities.

TX Miner operates in conjunction with MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server databases operating on Windows 2003, Windows Server 2007, or Vista. Current Web delivery services are via Cold Fusion MX. A Linux version of TX Miner is presently under development with all Web services to be controlled via Java. Operation over clustered servers is available upon request. Web access through latest versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Firefox is presently operational.